Spell Targeting (PF)

[Occasional Sage]

Can a caster target herself with a ranged touch attack? If so, is hitting automatic and is there a saving throw? This is waaaay to fringe for my searching to find.

[Slipperychicken]

By RAW, the Wizard would need to make an attack roll against her own AC. Characters may, however, willingly fail saving throws if they choose to.


Any DM who isn't a tool should let a Wizard hit herself with a ray without rolling to hit.

[Occasional Sage]

Oh right, voluntary fails. Thanks!

[TuggyNE]

Consider, for that matter, the precedent of death urge (psi/wld 4), which forces the target, if armed, to spend a full-round action on a single attack, which auto-succeeds, and auto-crits. (It doesn't force a Fort save, as a regular coup-de-grace would, but is otherwise basically the same.)